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the annual haircut where one human and one animal both lose patience but only one loses weight
means The act of cutting wool or hair off an animal, especially the seasonal removal of a sheep's fleece with clippers or shears.
from From the Old English 'sceran,' to cut or shave, which is the same root that gives us 'shears' and 'share' (a share being a piece cut off). It belongs to a wide Germanic family of cutting-words and is likely a distant cousin of the Latin 'curtus' (shortened) and Greek 'keirein' (to cut hair), all reaching back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to cut.' So the sheep and the barber's scissors are, etymologically, doing the same ancient job.
- speed record
- top shearers strip a sheep in under 40 seconds
- yearly haul
- one sheep grows up to 13 pounds of fleece
- sport status
- competitive shearing draws crowds and cash prizes
- survival need
- unsheared sheep can overheat or collapse under wool
- merino marathon
- a stray sheep once grew 89 pounds of fleece